When John Kantius Paruch was born in 1913, in Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, Joseph Paruch, was 24 and his mother, Mikelina Pizielski, was 16. He died on 11 September 1985, in his hometown, at the age of 72.
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The Bluenose racing schooner was launched on March 26, 1921, in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. It was evident that the ship was nothing like other ships that had been launched.
On April 16, 1945, the HMCS Esquimalt was torpedoed by German U-Boats. Thirty-nine men died, some due to the attack others to exposure to cold. Those that survived were rescued by the Sarnia.
The Canso Causeway was completed on April 13, 1955. It is a bridge across the Strait of Canso connecting Cape Breton Island. It is constructed in a S shape.
Some characteristic forenames: Polish Zbigniew, Andrzej, Casimir, Franciszek, Katarzyna, Krystyna, Lech, Ludwik, Pawel, Piotr, Slawomir, Zdzislaw.
Polish: from paluch ‘thumb’ (augmentative of palec‘finger’), hence a nickname used to denote a small person or a dwarf,or possibly a descriptive nickname for someone with a deformed ormissing thumb.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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